My job is to help the functioning of the story, not to draw attention to myself, but to make my characters function within the story, to work for the benefit of the story, to make the whole thing work.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think I have a job, which is to present a character in a story and entertain you and divert you with my work - that's it.
My job is to allow the character to live and breathe - and become as real to the reader as he or she is to me.
My job is more about helping people tell their stories in ever more interesting ways.
I find I have to respond to a character or a story to choose a job.
Unlike life, you've got more or less complete control over what's going on in your stories. That's not to say you can make characters do whatever you want them to - they usually have a life of their own if you've done your job properly.
To me, the writer's main job is to just make the story unscroll in such a way that the reader is snared - she's right there, seeing things happen and caring about them. And if you dedicate yourself to this job, the meanings more or less take care of themselves. That's the theory, anyway.
Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than saying them or telling them.
The first job of a storyteller is to make the reader feel the story, to get the reader to live in the skin of the character.
My job is to focus on bringing characters to life in an honest and personal way.
My job is to get to the heart of a story, to find out what's really going on; to get it verified and, then, to get it out to as many people as possible as fast as.